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We’re looking for ambitious women around the world. Does this sound like you? You like bringing people together You raise your hand when faced with an interesting opportunity You seek out ways to grow your network online and in person You get excited about reaching out to people, taking risks and creating something new And [...]

By Women inPower Mentor and CEO/Founder of Lucas Point Ventures, Adam Quinton. I had the great honor of being on an investor panel at Inspirefest in Dublin moderated by the inimitable Kara Swisher, co-founder and Executive Director of Recode. I applied a "canary in the coal mine" analogy to the rationalizations that some people make around [...]

By DANIEL VICTOR. Originally published in The New York Times. Companies pondering the incentives for increased gender diversity in their executive ranks may need to look no further than the bottom line. Having women in the highest corporate offices is correlated with increased profitability, according to a new study of nearly 22,000 publicly traded companies [...]

By Professor Michelle Ryan. Originally published in The Guardian. Many women are just as ambitious as men when they begin their careers, but become so wearied by fighting against multiple structural and experiential barriers to their success that this ambition often wanes. This is one of the findings made by Michelle Ryan, a professor of [...]

By Jana Cohen Barbe, originally published on Fortune. It’s the truth that you might not want to hear. MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for:What do you think is the most significant barrier to female leadership? is written by [...]

BY LYDIA DISHMAN. Published in Fast Company. Here is what we know: Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025, and they have different priorities than their predecessors. Motivated by a different set of values and ideas despite facing challenges such as student debt, the recession, and the resulting jobs crisis, Deloitte’s [...]

By JUSTIN WOLFERS JAN. 8, 2016, Originally published in The New York Times. Economics remains a stubbornly male-dominated profession, a fact that members of the profession have struggled to understand. After all, if the marketplace of ideas is meant to ensure that the best ideas thrive, then this imbalance should arise only if men [...]